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"If Momus’s project had taken, of having windows in our breasts, I should be for carrying it further, and making those windows casements: that while a man showed his heart to all the world, he might do something more for his friends, e’en take it out, and trust to their handling."Work: Letter to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (August, 1716)http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/21534
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/21534"They may perhaps be Monsters, and not Divinitys, or Sacred Truths, which are kept thus choicely, in some dark Corner of our Minds: The Specters may impose on us, whilst we refuse to turn 'em every way, and view their Shapes and Complexions in every light."Work: Sensus Communis, An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour in a Letter to a Friend [collected in Characteristics]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/21584
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/21584"The old project of a window in the bosom, to render the Soul of man visible, is what every honest friend has manifold reason to wish for; yet even that would not do in our case, while you are so far separated from me, and so long."Work: Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Several of his Friendshttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/21520
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